The Rug Children
yo Childhood is the most innocent stage in a human life.
Line of Inquiry: An inquiry into the difference we can make towards end child labour.
Child Labour: C.L
Causation: What causes child labour?
One way child labour is caused: Poverty = no money = no food/water, no education, no job
How can it also happen: kidnapping = forced work = no money = (no chance)
Child labour is caused by poverty because families will have hardly any money to survive on, they will send their children to work for more money = for food and water and also for education for their younger siblings or them self’s (if they have younger siblings.
Poverty
Parents lack education
Ineffective enforcement of the law of child labour (Bribed law enforcers)
Employers prefer children as they constitute cheap labour and they are not able to organize themselves against exploitation
Cultural causes
Minimum Age for “Non-dangerous Employment's 14 years old
Debt and Child Welfare
Cultural causes
Laws and enforcement are often inadequate.
Existing laws or codes of conduct are often violated
Child labour means that children around the world are forced against their will to work in dangerous conditions. Child labour also deprives the child of their education and their childhood because they are forced to work until they are 18. The work conditions are also very bad because they are shunned away in a dark room. They also don't have any chairs so they have to sit with their backs hunched while they are working on there textiles. They need to work for long hours and with very little pay. If they make one single mistake during there work they are tortured to possible death. The food is plain like stale white rice or bread.
Change: How does child labour change the life of a child labour?
There are jobs that are dangerous in themselves and affect child laborers immediately. They affect the overall health, strength, eye sight and hearing of children. Child labour lowers the child's potential growth by up to 30%. Working in mines, quarries, construction sites, and carrying heavy loads are some of the activities that put children directly at risk to the sharp objects. Jobs in the glass and brassware industry in India, where children are exposed to high temperatures while moving the wheel furnace and use heavy and sharp tools, cause dehydration and sometimes heat strokes. Child labour denies children the right to education so they cant get good jobs when thy grow up.
Child labour can change a child in the following ways;
Mentally - the child no longer is a child and has lost their ability to be a child which is about playing and learning and having fun
Physically - growth issues at a time when they are growing
Emotionally - has lost his/her parents/brothers/sisters and is not part of a happy, loving family which can cause many issues later when they are adults
Health issues can include the following depending on the work they are doing - stunting of their growth or physical development issues, malnutrition, loss of or eye sight problems, loss of or hearing problems, back injures, breathing problems are just some examples of the potential major issues children face.
Connection: How do other issues connect or lead to child labour?
Poverty and crime are large in child labour as poor children are some how drown into child labour. Sometimes they are kidnaped and that is a very large crime. Corruption is a major issue that helps chid labour prevail. A police officer might find a company that is using child labour but won't turn them in for a few thousand dollars. Even the smallest kind of child labour is a crime, cops arrested a man for making a 14 year old boy his helper because it is a sort of child labour. Child labour is one big crime. Kidnapping, how most kids get to child labour, is illegal and so is making children work for you without proper conditions. Poverty is also connected to child labour because most of the kids in child labour are very poor. Rarely, some kids don't mind child labour because they are so poor that even the tiny bit of money in child labour is worth it. Child labour is also connected to a lack of education because when or if a kid gets released he can not get a good education because of the time in child labour. Than they can not get a job and become poor. And the cycle starts again with their kids. To end this we must somehow break the cycle. If we fail to end child labour we will never be able to stop poverty or crime, if we let child labour grow, crime and poverty will grow with it.
Reflection: What are organizations doing about child labour?
The International Labour Organization (ILO) along with 183 other countries have set a goal to get rid of all of the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
There was a 10% decrease in child labour between 2000 and 2004, and 3% 2004- 2008.
The ILO raised awareness saying that child labour is still a big problem. The ILO sends people to go check different places where they think might be containing child laborers. The ILO also negotiate with employers about the children's wages and a better working environment. The ILO also sends out labour inspectors to check on the factories.
CRY is another organization that is trying to exterminate child labour.They organize event with other organizations and ordinary people to promote the welfare of children around the world.CRY is an international organization based in the United States of America.
Responsibility: What can we do to take action against child labour?
Get people to promise to never buy child labour made products. (Read our pamphlet for information on how to spot a child labour made product.)
Sign up on a website of an organisation that stops child labour to get emails on how to take action. You can also volunteer.
Participating in charity activities that the ILO conducts on World Child Labour day.
Go on this website for further details.
1) If you walk into a shop or restaurant and see a kid working, stop using the services of the shop or restaurant, instead buy a notebook or a dress for the kid and give it, in front of the shop/restaurant owner.(By kids we mean 14 and under.)
2) Ask your friends and relatives to boycott the shop/restaurant and every one of you and your friends buy something for the kid, a pen, a toy or something to make the kid smile.
3) Find the root cause for the need for the kid to work. If the kid is helpless, without a caretaker find a Non Government Organization there are many NGO'S available these days they can channelize the proceedings.
4) Many people contribute to flood relief fund/prime ministers relief fund etc just for the sake of publicity and to avail tax exemptions. Contact them, make them popular, if possible make a fan page for them in Facebook! Somehow get some money from them and we should also contribute what we can afford and sponsor a child or two. Note: Channelize the funds through welfare organizations who really want to help the kids.
5) And one more important thing, as per the new law education is free for children who cannot afford and its a basic right for them. Help a kid get admission in a school, you need not pay for them but at least speak for them. ( Greedy schools will not sacrifice the slots that fetch huge capitation for free, there will be some resistance.)
6) Don’t employ children as domestic laborers.
7) Don’t buy products which have been made by child laborers.
8) If you know someone, who employ children, report about them to the authorities.
Facts
One in six children 5 to 14 years old — about 16 % of all children in this age group — is involved in child labor in developing countries.
Worldwide, 126 million children work in dangerous conditions, often lasting beatings and humiliation by their employer
In 3rd world countries and when they have political problems and a civil war starts sometimes these armies use kids soldiers to help fight their wars!
Today, more than 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 work. Of those, more than 80 million kids labor in extremely dangerous conditions. They weave carpets in dimly lit factories at times, chained to their looms. They crawl through cramped tunnels deep below the earth's surface hunting for gems and coal. And they struggle not to fall under the crushing weight of bricks balanced on their heads.
This cycle of unending labor is robbing young people of their childhoods—even in America. Officials estimate that more than 150,000 children work illegally on U.S. farms
bibliograghy
"Child Labour - Causes and Effects." HubPages. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.\
"Hum-coolie.com." Web log post. Hum-coolie.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2013.
"Take Action." - Save the Children. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
"International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)." International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
yo
Childhood is the most innocent stage in a human life.
Line of Inquiry: An inquiry into the difference we can make towards end child labour.
Child Labour: C.L
Causation: What causes child labour?
One way child labour is caused: Poverty = no money = no food/water, no education, no job
How can it also happen: kidnapping = forced work = no money = (no chance)
Child labour is caused by poverty because families will have hardly any money to survive on, they will send their children to work for more money = for food and water and also for education for their younger siblings or them self’s (if they have younger siblings.
Form: What is child labour?
Child labour means that children around the world are forced against their will to work in dangerous conditions. Child labour also deprives the child of their education and their childhood because they are forced to work until they are 18. The work conditions are also very bad because they are shunned away in a dark room. They also don't have any chairs so they have to sit with their backs hunched while they are working on there textiles. They need to work for long hours and with very little pay. If they make one single mistake during there work they are tortured to possible death. The food is plain like stale white rice or bread.
Change: How does child labour change the life of a child labour?
There are jobs that are dangerous in themselves and affect child laborers immediately. They affect the overall health, strength, eye sight and hearing of children. Child labour lowers the child's potential growth by up to 30%. Working in mines, quarries, construction sites, and carrying heavy loads are some of the activities that put children directly at risk to the sharp objects. Jobs in the glass and brassware industry in India, where children are exposed to high temperatures while moving the wheel furnace and use heavy and sharp tools, cause dehydration and sometimes heat strokes. Child labour denies children the right to education so they cant get good jobs when thy grow up.
Child labour can change a child in the following ways;
Connection: How do other issues connect or lead to child labour?
Poverty and crime are large in child labour as poor children are some how drown into child labour. Sometimes they are kidnaped and that is a very large crime. Corruption is a major issue that helps chid labour prevail. A police officer might find a company that is using child labour but won't turn them in for a few thousand dollars. Even the smallest kind of child labour is a crime, cops arrested a man for making a 14 year old boy his helper because it is a sort of child labour. Child labour is one big crime. Kidnapping, how most kids get to child labour, is illegal and so is making children work for you without proper conditions. Poverty is also connected to child labour because most of the kids in child labour are very poor. Rarely, some kids don't mind child labour because they are so poor that even the tiny bit of money in child labour is worth it. Child labour is also connected to a lack of education because when or if a kid gets released he can not get a good education because of the time in child labour. Than they can not get a job and become poor. And the cycle starts again with their kids. To end this we must somehow break the cycle. If we fail to end child labour we will never be able to stop poverty or crime, if we let child labour grow, crime and poverty will grow with it.
Reflection: What are organizations doing about child labour?
The International Labour Organization (ILO) along with 183 other countries have set a goal to get rid of all of the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
There was a 10% decrease in child labour between 2000 and 2004, and 3% 2004- 2008.
The ILO raised awareness saying that child labour is still a big problem. The ILO sends people to go check different places where they think might be containing child laborers. The ILO also negotiate with employers about the children's wages and a better working environment. The ILO also sends out labour inspectors to check on the factories.
CRY is another organization that is trying to exterminate child labour.They organize event with other organizations and ordinary people to promote the welfare of children around the world.CRY is an international organization based in the United States of America.
Responsibility: What can we do to take action against child labour?
Get people to promise to never buy child labour made products. (Read our pamphlet for information on how to spot a child labour made product.)
Sign up on a website of an organisation that stops child labour to get emails on how to take action. You can also volunteer.
Participating in charity activities that the ILO conducts on World Child Labour day.
Go on this website for further details.
1) If you walk into a shop or restaurant and see a kid working, stop using the services of the shop or restaurant, instead buy a notebook or a dress for the kid and give it, in front of the shop/restaurant owner.(By kids we mean 14 and under.)
2) Ask your friends and relatives to boycott the shop/restaurant and every one of you and your friends buy something for the kid, a pen, a toy or something to make the kid smile.
3) Find the root cause for the need for the kid to work. If the kid is helpless, without a caretaker find a Non Government Organization there are many NGO'S available these days they can channelize the proceedings.
4) Many people contribute to flood relief fund/prime ministers relief fund etc just for the sake of publicity and to avail tax exemptions. Contact them, make them popular, if possible make a fan page for them in Facebook! Somehow get some money from them and we should also contribute what we can afford and sponsor a child or two. Note: Channelize the funds through welfare organizations who really want to help the kids.
5) And one more important thing, as per the new law education is free for children who cannot afford and its a basic right for them. Help a kid get admission in a school, you need not pay for them but at least speak for them. ( Greedy schools will not sacrifice the slots that fetch huge capitation for free, there will be some resistance.)
6) Don’t employ children as domestic laborers.
7) Don’t buy products which have been made by child laborers.
8) If you know someone, who employ children, report about them to the authorities.
Facts
"Child Labour - Causes and Effects." HubPages. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.\
"Hum-coolie.com." Web log post. Hum-coolie.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2013.
"Take Action." - Save the Children. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
"International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)." International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
Life Story. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2013.
"Child Labour." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 04 Nov. 2013. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
Jasmine. "Poverty and Child Labour." Scribd. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
"Continue to Your Page. | BrokenControllers.com." Broken Controllers Latest Topics RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2013.
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"Child Labor in U.S. History." - The Child Labor Education Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2013.